Ancestry of
Maria Mitchell

Astronomer

Lydia Coleman

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• • Mother of Maria Mitchell — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Andrew Coleman 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Folger   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Aug 1792 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1861 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Mitchell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Dec 1812 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Maria Mitchell (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Eliza K. Mitchell

• Sources for Lydia Coleman

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 28347, Membership application for James Greenleaf Adams.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/05/2023).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for Lydia Mitchell.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, p. 327, Birth record for daughter Maria Mitchell.
  • ⁵ Austin, John Osborne, American Authors' Ancestry: Including some others who have influenced life wisely . . ., Providence, Rhode Island: Freeman Company, Printers (1915), 64.
  • ⁶ Howe, Julia Ward, ed., Representative Women of New England, Boston: New England Historical Publishing Company (1904), 481.
  • ⁷ Kendall, Phebe Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals, Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers (1896), 1.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Maria Mitchell", (accessed 05/05/2023).